3 [Written by Terje Oseberg]
7 When your user mode program calls fuse_main() (lib/helper.c),
8 fuse_main() parses the arguments passed to your user mode program,
9 then calls fuse_mount() (lib/mount.c).
11 fuse_mount() creates a UNIX domain socket pair, then forks and execs
12 fusermount (util/fusermount.c) passing it one end of the socket in the
13 FUSE_COMMFD_ENV environment variable.
15 fusermount (util/fusermount.c) makes sure that the fuse module is
16 loaded. fusermount then open /dev/fuse and send the file handle over a
17 UNIX domain socket back to fuse_mount().
19 fuse_mount() returns the filehandle for /dev/fuse to fuse_main().
21 fuse_main() calls fuse_new() (lib/fuse.c) which allocates the struct
22 fuse datastructure that stores and maintains a cached image of the
25 Lastly, fuse_main() calls either fuse_loop() (lib/fuse.c) or
26 fuse_loop_mt() (lib/fuse_mt.c) which both start to read the filesystem
27 system calls from the /dev/fuse, call the usermode functions
28 stored in struct fuse_operations datastructure before calling
29 fuse_main(). The results of those calls are then written back to the
30 /dev/fuse file where they can be forwarded back to the system
35 The kernel module consists of two parts. First the proc filesystem
36 component in kernel/dev.c -and second the filesystem system calls
37 kernel/file.c, kernel/inode.c, and kernel/dir.c
39 All the system calls in kernel/file.c, kernel/inode.c, and
40 kernel/dir.c make calls to either request_send(),
41 request_send_noreply(), or request_send_nonblock(). Most of the calls
42 (all but 2) are to request_send(). request_send() adds the request to,
43 "list of requests" structure (fc->pending), then waits for a response.
44 request_send_noreply() and request_send_nonblock() are both similar in
45 function to request_send() except that one is non-blocking, and the
46 other does not respond with a reply.
48 The proc filesystem component in kernel/dev.c responds to file io
49 requests to the file /dev/fuse. fuse_dev_read() handles the
50 file reads and returns commands from the "list of requests" structure
51 to the calling program. fuse_dev_write() handles file writes and takes
52 the data written and places them into the req->out datastructure where
53 they can be returned to the system call through the "list of requests"
54 structure and request_send().